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The following is a list of billionaires, in United States dollars, worldwide for 2006 compiled by Forbes, not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth). In 2006, there are 793 billionaires from 49 countries, with more than half being in the United States and Germany. 2006 saw an increase in billionaires from Russia, India, and Brazil mainly due to economic growth in those countries.

ANYONE will be able to establish their own space airline - as long as they can afford to buy a spacecraft. That's according to The Spaceship Company, a venture set up last week to make spacecraft by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.